by orchaeus | Feb 14, 2021 | Status Update
Heard raptor mating/calls outside just now.
by orchaeus | Feb 14, 2021 | Status Update
This is the (5th winter) moon cycle during which many creatures are mating; they’ve been preparing for at least a week, but there are Blue Herons sitting nests and I’ve seen raptors and other animals (newts, field crickets) displaying mating behaviors over...
by orchaeus | Feb 13, 2021 | Status Update
If you want to know the news that matters, go to the sun. The sky. The moon. The animals. The living places. The mountain and the valley. This is a very tiny world. A droplet in a vast ocean. The news that matters is the living beings. Not the poisons our machines...
by orchaeus | Feb 13, 2021 | Status Update
That’s the wrong kind of light.
by orchaeus | Feb 13, 2021 | Status Update
It is not so difficult … in fact it is trivial … to so overwhelm our natural faculties and sensitivities… … that the world of the nonordinary largely disappears from our direct access and experience. One result is fictions that preserve some...
by orchaeus | Feb 13, 2021 | Status Update
The other day I wrapped my palm around one of the trunks of some laurel trees in a place where I practice. Immediately, I felt… strong, rhythmic strikes that permeated the wood. One of the stellar’s jays that knows me there, was talking into my hand. With...
